Google Voice Opens to Everyone

New: Get Google Voice Without an Invitation!

After launching an invite-only version of its voice service last year, Google has opened Google Voice to all US customers. Though many of you said that you've already signed up for the service, if you've been holding out (or just waiting for an invite), now's the time! Google Voice offers a number of time- and sanity-saving features like voice-to-email transcription, free calls and texts to anyone in the US, and, of course, the ability to have one phone number — which rings all of your phones — for the rest of your life.

Google voice has been great - I've had it for a few months now. But the sad thing is that since the beginning of June, they've taken away the ability to send sms/txt internationally. I was able to send and receive sms's from my mum in Australia from here in the USA. So that was really disappointing :( But all the other features are excellent!